Comment by andyferris
Comment by andyferris 13 hours ago
Further abroad (Australia), Chile is a country and chili is the hot pepper, so I suspect the (English) language here is highly regional.
Eg I’ve even lived in North American and never come across that spelling for the pepper.
The "chile" spelling is from Spanish, particularly Mexican and Central American Spanish. The word is derived from Nahuatl (Aztec).
That said, I'm in northern US and I would spell the pepper "chili"